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Simple criterion for the occurrence of Bose-Einstein condensation and the Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect

Klaus Kirsten, David J. Toms

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.55.7797 · Physical Review D

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Abstract

We examine the occurrence of Bose-Einstein condensation in both nonrelativistic and relativistic systems with no self-interactions in a general setting. A simple condition for the occurrence of Bose-Einstein condensation is given. We show that condensation can occur only if q>~3, where q is the dimension associated with the continuous part of the eigenvalue spectrum of the Hamiltonian for nonrelativistic systems or the spatial part of the Klein-Gordon operator for relativistic systems. Furthermore we show that the criterion for the appearance of the Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect is closely connected with that for the appearance of Bose-Einstein condensation.

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